Uniqueness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. A Case for Uniqueness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Literary Precedents for Uniqueness

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 3-10

3. Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together?

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 13-29

   3. Theory of Uniqueness

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 31-55

   4. Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 57-76

   5. Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 77-101

4. Uniqueness Attributes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Commodities As Uniqueness Attributes

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 105-127

   3. Names as Uniqueness Attributes

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 129-143

   4. Attitudes and Beliefs as Uniqueness Attributes

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 145-162

   5. Performance as Uniqueness-Motivated Behavior

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 163-174

5. Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Deindividuation: Loss of Uniqueness

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 177-193

   3. Individuation: The Pursuit of Difference

      • C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin

      Pages 195-219

6. Back Matter

   Pages 221-227

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My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt. Not a brightly colored red shirt, not a dramatic cherry or firehouse red, more like a faded burgundy. But, for several days, my very iden­ tity was bound up in its redness. It was me, and I wore it with the pride a matador takes in his splendid cape, a hero in his medals of bravery, or a nun in her religious habit. I'll never forget the bound­ less joy I felt wearing that simple, pullover, short-sleeved red shirt in the hospital--or the rush of relief that I experienced when, at last, I decided to surrender it. However, we are getting ahead of our story, which starts a short time earlier with a most unfortunate accident. A light flurry of wet snow had begun to fall as the university limousine turned the corner on its way from the Bronx campus of New York University to the downtown campus. Although eight of us were packed into the car and had resigned ourselves to the usual boring faculty meeting awaiting us, somehow a spontaneous air of joviality was created.

• START
• behavior
• hospital
• university

• The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

  C. R. Snyder

• York University, Downsview, Canada

  Howard L. Fromkin

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